Cisco ONS 15454 - Monitoring and Verifying Bridging

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Cisco ONS 15454 SONET/SDH ML-Series Multilayer Ethernet Card Software Feature and Configuration Guide, R4.0
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Chapter 5 Configuring Bridging
Bridging
Monitoring and Verifying Bridging
After you have set up the ML-Series card for bridging, you can monitor and verify its operation by
performing the following procedure, in privileged EXEC mode:
Router# show bridge
Total of 300 station blocks, 298 free
Codes: P - permanent, S - self
Bridge Group 1:
Maximum dynamic entries allowed: 1000
Current dynamic entry count: 2
Address Action Interface
0000.0001.6000 forward FastEthernet0
0000.0001.6100 forward POS0
Router# show bridge verbose
Total of 300 station blocks, 298 free
Codes: P - permanent, S - self
Maximum dynamic entries allowed: 1000
Current dynamic entry count: 2
BG Hash Address Action Interface VC Age RX count TX co
unt
1 60/0 0000.0001.6000 forward FastEthernet0 -
1 61/0 0000.0001.6100 forward POS0 -
Flood ports
FastEthernet0
POS0
Router# show spanning-tree
Bridge group 1
Spanning tree enabled protocol ieee
Root ID Priority 32769
Address 0005.9a39.6634
This bridge is the root
Hello Time 2 sec Max Age 20 sec Forward Delay 15 sec
Command Purpose
Step 1
Router# clear
bridge
bridge-group-number
Removes any learned entries from the forwarding database of a
particular bridge group, clears the transmit, and receives counts
for any statically configured forwarding entries.
Step 2
Router# show bridge
bridge-group-number |
interface-address
Displays classes of entries in the bridge forwarding database.
Step 3
Router# show bridge verbose
Displays detailed information about configured bridge groups.
Step 4
Router# show spanning-tree
Displays the spanning tree topology known to the ML-Series
card.